On 07/30/2013 01:19 PM, Digimer wrote:
> On 30/07/13 12:39, Patrick wrote:
>> I've had nothing but trouble with BSD/Linux over the past year or so.
>>
>> I've been on Centos 6.4 for about a half day now and I am loving it.
>>
>> I am just wondering though, how does a 7 year support cycle work?
>>
>> I see that there is libreoffice which is kinda new. Is this because open
>> office is under oracle's influence?
>>
>> I am on gnome 2 right now, will I wake up one day in the next 7 years to
>> gnome 3 ? I really don't want to. Will I just have gnome 2 + bug fixes?
>>
>> If so how does the community do this if the gnome people drop support
>> for gnome 2.
>>
>> Thanks-Patrick
> To expand on Mark's reply;
>
> CentOS is a community maintained, binary compatible version of Red Hat
> Enterprise Linux. That means that, minus trademarked content, it is
> identical in every way to RHEL (warts and all). Red Hat somewhat
> recently announced that they were extending support from 7 years to 10
> years, too.
>
> Red Hat's claim to fame, and the reason for their popularity, is that
> they maintain a super-stable OS. Once a major version is released, say
> 6.0, all versions of all software will (almost) never change. So the
> version released on 6.0 will be the same version available when the last
> 6.X version is retired. This means that you never have to worry about
> conflicts and faults caused by library or dependency apps changing over
> time.
>
> As for support; Red Hat takes responsibility of maintaining *all*
> applications in their OS. Of course, most issues are resolved with help
> from the original authors, but they will take over if the original
> project dies or significantly changes for whatever reason.
>
> CentOS, in the meantime, very quickly recompiles updates as they're
> released from Red Hat and makes them available to their users. They do
> this for all supported releases and plan to do so for the foreseeable
> future. Given their past excellent track record, I personally have every
> reason to trust them. So CentOS will continue to provide support for
> CentOS 5 until 2017 and CentOS 6 until 2020.
>
> This is why RHEL and CentOS are so extremely popular in enterprise. It's
> arguably the most supported and longest living release cycle in the
> Linux ecosystem.
>
> hth
>
Good to know there's a reliable server/desktop OS that can withstand the
long-haul!
EGO II
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